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The headlines:
** Queen Elizabeth Opens Holocaust Exhibition
Britain's Queen Elizabeth Tuesday opened a permanent Holocaust exhibition in
London that was hailed by survivors and community leaders as a fitting
tribute to six million slaughtered Jews
** Carolina museum buys back painting looted by Nazis
A North Carolina museum that was widely praised for returning to two elderly
sisters a 16th century painting the Nazis stole from their Jewish
great-uncle has bought the work back -- at a below-market price that
reflects the owners' gratitude
** Greeks try charm but Marbles bid fails, again
A Greek charm offensive to persuade Britain to return the Elgin marbles to
Athens and the Acropolis foundered when Prime Minister Tony Blair ruled out
the idea and Opposition Tory MPs boycotted a British House of Commons
hearing for the Greek Foreign Minister to make his case
** New Museum Commemorates 'The Longest Day'
The patriotism and sacrifice of the 156,000 troops who took part in the
Allied invasion of Normandy will now forever be remembered with the opening
of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans on the 56th anniversary of the
fateful day
** St. Louis museum exhibits rare Russian treasures
The exhibit, "Unseen Treasures: Imperial Russia and the New World," includes
some 350 rare Russian art objects and artifacts
** Antiquorum's Hong Kong Watch Auction Fetches $4.39 Million
The Breguet Museum purchased a rare 18-karat gold miniature Breguet watch
for $81,434. Only 16 examples of this watch exist
** King Zog's relics: SA gets Albanian SOS
Albania's National Museum has requested that the family of the late King
Zog, now living in South Africa, send back the king's relics for display,
its director said on Tuesday
** Turkish Cops Find Alleged Picasso
Police have recovered a painting believed to be a stolen Picasso and
arrested six people in the city of Izmir
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** An ancient city awaits its watery grave
From where he sits squinting in the sun on a 2,000-year-old wall,
archaeologist Mehmet Onal can see the enemy. Just 30 yards away, the
blue-green waters of the Euphrates River, swollen like a tumor, are
advancing toward him.
** Lost Egyptian Cities Found
Archaeologists scouring the Mediterranean seabed announced Saturday they
have found the 2,500-year-old ruins of submerged Pharaonic cities that until
now were known only through Greek tragedies, travelogues and legends.
** Swedish museum to return 124-year-old totem pole to Canada
A Swedish museum said Tuesday it will return a 124-year-old totem pole
brought from Canada in the 1920s to its original indigenous owners.
** Visitor breaks Ming chair at Minneapolis museum
A museum visitor looking for a place to rest his feet picked an expensive
place to sit down.
** Marshall to digitize film archives
Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center is playing a major role in NASA's
switch to digital-television broadcasts and a commercial effort to digitize
the space agency's film and video archives and put them on the Internet.
** Site of Drake's Pacific landing roils amateur historians
To reach the spot where the dashing buccaneer Francis Drake is supposed to
have visited California, Capt. Raymond Aker looks no farther than Drake's
Bay, a sweep of sand and rock curled at the edge of the cold Pacific.
** Antigravity: The Feline Butterology Theory
If you drop a buttered piece of bread, it will fall on the floor butter-side
down. If a cat is dropped from a window or other high and towering place, it
will land on its feet
** Bracks for talks on Guggenheim hopes
Premier Steve Bracks is to hold talks with the Guggenheim Museum in New York
later this month in a bid to encourage the development of a $300 million
museum in Geelong
** Museum adds mussel to old industry
What is thought to be the first seafood museum in Britain has opened in
north Wales. (With Video Clip)
** Murder, Mayhem Returns to Coliseum
Murder and mayhem are returning to the Coliseum, 1,500 years after the last
gladiators fought and died in the ancient arena. But this time the blood is
fake and so are the deaths.
** Laser scan puts focus on David's squint
It may be the single finest example of Renaissance sculpture but in reality
Michelangelo's David might have had trouble seeing, let alone slaying,
Goliath
** This Week's Horoscopes
A rather zany selection of astrological predictions!
** The Truth about Melbourne
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